A bifurcation problem for a class of periodically perturbed autonomous parabolic equations

作者：Kamenskii Mikhail; Mikhaylenko Boris; Nistri Paolo^*

来源：Boundary Value Problems, 2013, 2013(1): 101.

DOI：10.1186/1687-2770-2013-101

• autonomous parabolic equations
• periodic perturbations
• limit cycle
• bifurcation
• periodic solutions

The paper deals with the problem of the existence of a branch of T-periodic solutions originating from the isolated limit cycle of an autonomous parabolic equation in a Banach space when it is perturbed by a nonlinear T-periodic term of small amplitude.
We solve this problem by first introducing a novel integral operator, whose fixed points are T-periodic solutions of the considered equation and vice versa. Then we compute the Malkin bifurcation function associated to this integral operator and we provide conditions under which the well-known assumption of the existence of a simple zero of the Malkin bifurcation function guarantees the existence of the branch.
MSC: 35K58, 35B10, 35B20, 35B32.

• 出版日期2013